Option 2 – Establish municipal rate of $25 per year and increase rural household fee from $96 per year to $101 per year. New fee on municipalities, many already receive solid waste service, and a 4.9% fee ...

Author Heywood Sanders of Convention Center Follies speaks at the John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon September 29, 2014. He has extensively studied projections by consultants that typically recommend the construction of convention centers.

This year The Community Council has been working and researching various topics which impact our community.You can review details by visiting our website or Facebook page . While we placed several ads in The Rocky Mount Telegram and encourage everyone to purchase the paper to keep abreast of local issues, we want to give you a quick synopsis on what we believe are a few of the biggest ...

It appears Hickory, NC is in a similar position to Rocky Mount, NC. Both municipalities say they are looking to spend $40 million. Rocky Mount’s City Council has all but said it will approve the “proposed” Event Center while Hickory is asking citizen input via a bond referendum vote in November. Is one way better than the other?

Over the past few months the Rocky Mount City Manager and Council have made some bold proposals that impact our community. They have proposed building an event center that will cost citizens over $60 million to build and finance while the ten year projected operating loss is $4.3 million. Most recently they have proposed a 3% to 9% pay raise ...

According to the Rocky Mount Telegram we will likely see a 7% increase in our electric and gas bills while sewer charges will increase by 5%. The City of Rocky Mount is piling on the fees and increases to citizens instead of cutting the budget by the $2.3 ...

It comes to no surprise that the Rocky Mount City Council votes to proceed with securing funds (including, but not limited to EB-5 and New Market Tax Credits) for funding of the “proposed” event center.

Surprising to the public was a motion by Councilman Tom Rogers, supported by the entire City Council, for a plan to exceed study projections and suggested the “proposed” event center must operate with profit.

The motion made by Rogers:

Initiating the NMTCs and EB-5 application process is the natural, next ...